Oil Pipeline Breaks Again

U.S. & Latin America - Latin American & Caribbean News to Note

October 29, 2000

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- A pipeline broke and leaked diesel oil into the ocean at a port in southern Brazil, federal officials said Saturday, less than four months after the same pipeline ruptured and caused the country's worst oil spill in 25 years. Workers set up floating barriers to contain the flammable oil around the port of Paranagua and used vacuums to remove it.